He’d said he was "working late," but Maya knew better. The flicker of the phone screen under the duvet, the hurried whispers – it all added up. Tonight, she was going to confront him.

Her breath hitched in short, shallow gasps. She adjusted the angle of the baby monitor, ensuring it had a clear view of the living room, where David was supposedly “lost in spreadsheets.” A smile stretched across her face, almost against her will.

Her stomach felt like it had butterflies – or maybe it was anticipation. It was going to be an interesting night.

Emotion: eager

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion eager. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 eager stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the eager emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the eager vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.659
excitedly0.436
!0.389
!"0.386
ecstatic0.383
Suppressed:
S-0.816
ness-0.441
😞-0.387
L-0.379
P-0.376